> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.conduktor.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Apache Kafka Operations Platform

> Deploy, govern and automate Apache Kafka with Conduktor — Console UI, Gateway proxy, CLI, API, Terraform and MCP. Self-hosted on Kubernetes or Docker.

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          Manage, govern, <em>automate</em> Apache Kafka.
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          Console (Kafka UI), Gateway (Kafka proxy), Schema Registry Proxy. Drive them via CLI, API, Terraform or MCP. Kubernetes or Docker. Bring your own Kafka.
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            <span className="kfk-persona-desc">RBAC, encryption, Chargeback, Self-service guardrails, Virtual Clusters, Partner Zones.</span>
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            <span className="kfk-persona-title">I'm operating</span>
            <span className="kfk-persona-desc">Install Console, Kafka Gateway proxy and SRP. HA, upgrades, monitoring, troubleshooting.</span>
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            <span className="kfk-persona-title">I'm building</span>
            <span className="kfk-persona-desc">Browse topics, manage schemas, debug messages. Drive Console from your app code.</span>
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            <span className="kfk-persona-desc">What Conduktor is, how it sits with your Kafka, what's bundled, architecture.</span>
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          <a href="/guide/use-cases" className="kfk-cta kfk-cta--p1 dh-cta--p1">See governance use cases →</a>
          <a href="/guide/conduktor-in-production" className="kfk-cta kfk-cta--p2 dh-cta--p2">Open the production guide →</a>
          <a href="/guide/manage-kafka" className="kfk-cta kfk-cta--p3 dh-cta--p3">Manage Kafka resources →</a>
          <a href="/guide/use-cases/self-service" className="kfk-cta kfk-cta--p4 dh-cta--p4">Read the use-cases →</a>
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    <h2 className="kfk-h2">Three products to manage, secure and govern Kafka.</h2>

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      Each one solves a different layer. Use one or stack them.
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        <span className="dh-product-version">v{/* CONSOLE_VERSION */}1.46.0{/* /CONSOLE_VERSION */}</span>
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      <h3 className="dh-product-title">Kafka UI and control plane.</h3>
      <p className="dh-product-desc">Topic management, message browsing, schema control, RBAC, audit logs, Self-service, Chargeback. Runs above any Kafka cluster.</p>

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        <li>○  Topic, consumer group and schema management</li>
        <li>○  Self-service for application teams</li>
        <li>○  Cost allocation with Chargeback</li>
        <li>○  RBAC, SSO and audit logging</li>
      </ul>

      <div className="dh-product-actions">
        <a href="/guide/conduktor-in-production/deploy-artifacts/deploy-console" className="kfk-cta kfk-cta--block">Deploy Console →</a>
        <a href="/guide/release-notes" className="kfk-next-secondary">What's new in v{/* CONSOLE_VERSION */}1.46.0{/* /CONSOLE_VERSION */} ↗</a>
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        <span className="dh-product-version">v{/* GATEWAY_VERSION */}3.20.0{/* /GATEWAY_VERSION */}</span>
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      <h3 className="dh-product-title">Programmable Kafka proxy.</h3>
      <p className="dh-product-desc">Drop-in proxy between clients and brokers. Run Interceptors to encrypt, filter, redact, throttle, multi-tenant or share topics, without changing client code.</p>

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        <li>○  Field-level encryption and full-payload encryption</li>
        <li>○  Virtual Clusters and Partner Zones</li>
        <li>○  Traffic control, quota and audit Interceptors</li>
        <li>○  Passthrough mode for zero-config drop-in</li>
      </ul>

      <div className="dh-product-actions">
        <a href="/guide/conduktor-in-production/deploy-artifacts/deploy-gateway" className="kfk-cta kfk-cta--block">Deploy Gateway →</a>
        <a href="/guide/release-notes" className="kfk-next-secondary">What's new in v{/* GATEWAY_VERSION */}3.20.0{/* /GATEWAY_VERSION */} ↗</a>
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        <span className="kfk-track-num">Schema Registry Proxy</span>
        <a href="https://www.conduktor.io/blog/introducing-schema-registry-proxy" className="dh-product-version dh-product-version--preview">Preview ↗</a>
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      <h3 className="dh-product-title">Schema Registry, governed.</h3>
      <p className="dh-product-desc">Proxy in front of Confluent Schema Registry. Add SSO, role-based access and observability to schema operations, no client change required.</p>

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        <li>○  SSO and RBAC on schema reads and writes</li>
        <li>○  Audit log of every schema change</li>
        <li>○  Observability and metrics</li>
        <li>○  Compatible with Confluent Schema Registry</li>
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        <a href="/guide/conduktor-in-production/deploy-artifacts/deploy-schema-registry-proxy" className="kfk-cta kfk-cta--block">Deploy SRP →</a>
        <a href="/guide/reference/schema-registry-proxy-environment-variables" className="kfk-next-secondary">Configuration ↗</a>
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    <div className="kfk-section-num">02</div>
    <h2 className="kfk-h2">What do you want to ship?</h2>

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      Each card is a Kafka platform pain teams hit past a certain scale. Conduktor ships the answer — pick what's already on your roadmap.
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      <div className="dh-usecase-title">Open Self-service to teams</div>
      <div className="dh-usecase-desc">Let app teams own topics, schemas and ACLs under guardrails you control.</div>
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      <div className="dh-usecase-title">Track and charge back Kafka cost</div>
      <div className="dh-usecase-desc">Allocate Kafka cost across teams. Per-topic, per-app, per-tenant.</div>
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      <div className="dh-usecase-title">Spot risks with Insights</div>
      <div className="dh-usecase-desc">Risk analysis, cost dashboards, VIP topics and governance reports across your clusters.</div>
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      <div className="dh-usecase-title">Drive Kafka from your AI assistant</div>
      <div className="dh-usecase-desc">Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client to Console for natural-language Kafka ops.</div>
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      <div className="dh-usecase-title">Encrypt Kafka data</div>
      <div className="dh-usecase-desc">Field-level or full-payload encryption at the Gateway. Transparent to clients.</div>
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      <div className="dh-usecase-title">Enforce data quality</div>
      <div className="dh-usecase-desc">Validation Rules and Policies catch bad messages before brokers do.</div>
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      <div className="dh-usecase-title">Apply traffic control policies</div>
      <div className="dh-usecase-desc">Throttle, audit or block clients at the Gateway with interceptor rules.</div>
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      <div className="dh-usecase-title">Share data with partners</div>
      <div className="dh-usecase-desc">Expose selective topics to external orgs with Partner Zones.</div>
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      <div className="dh-usecase-title">Run multi-tenant Kafka with Virtual Clusters</div>
      <div className="dh-usecase-desc">Carve one physical Kafka into many isolated logical clusters with their own ACLs and quotas.</div>
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    <h2 className="kfk-h2">Automate everything in the agents era.</h2>

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      Every Conduktor primitive is API-first: declare it in Terraform, drive it from CI, manage from CLI, or let an MCP-aware agent handle the rest.
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      <div className="dh-automate-head">CLI</div>
      <div className="dh-automate-desc">Manage Console and Gateway resources from your terminal. Wire into CI/CD.</div>
      <code className="dh-automate-snippet" title="conduktor apply -f topic.yaml"><span className="dh-automate-snippet-text">conduktor apply -f topic.yaml</span></code>
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      <div className="dh-automate-head">REST API</div>
      <div className="dh-automate-desc">Full REST surface for every Console and Gateway resource. OpenAPI generated.</div>
      <code className="dh-automate-snippet" title="GET /self-serve/v1/topic-policy"><span className="dh-automate-snippet-text">GET /self-serve/v1/topic-policy</span></code>
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      <div className="dh-automate-head">Terraform</div>
      <div className="dh-automate-desc">Manage Conduktor resources as code alongside your infrastructure modules.</div>
      <code className="dh-automate-snippet" title="resource &#x22;conduktor_gateway_vclusters&#x22;"><span className="dh-automate-snippet-text">resource "conduktor\_gateway\_vclusters"</span></code>
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      <div className="dh-automate-desc">Plug AI assistants into Console via Model Context Protocol. Read-only or read-write.</div>
      <code className="dh-automate-snippet" title="claude mcp add conduktor"><span className="dh-automate-snippet-text">claude mcp add conduktor</span></code>
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        <div className="kfk-tools-eyebrow">Reference tool</div>
        <h2 className="kfk-tools-title">Kafka Options Explorer</h2>

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          Compare Kafka configs across every version. Read KIPs, decode error codes, plan upgrades.
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        <ul className="kfk-tools-list">
          <li>Compare broker, producer, consumer and connect configs side by side</li>
          <li>Browse every KIP with summaries and status</li>
          <li>Generate upgrade reports between any two versions</li>
          <li>Look up error codes and wire protocol changes</li>
        </ul>

        <a href="https://kafka-options-explorer.conduktor.io/" className="kfk-tools-cta">Open the explorer →</a>
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          <div className="kfk-next-eyebrow">Deploying at scale?</div>
          <h2 className="kfk-next-title">Talk to us about production rollouts.</h2>

          <p className="kfk-next-lead">
            HA topology, security hardening, Self-service rollout, migration from a competitor. Our team helps deploy Conduktor in real Kafka platforms.
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        <div className="kfk-next-actions">
          <a href="https://conduktor.io/contact" className="kfk-cta">Talk to our team →</a>
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